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Future Now 005 — The Future of AI with Ethan Mollick
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The Flaws of Analogies and Metaphors
I know many folks, including yourself, have struggled to find good analogies and metaphors. Could you talk a little bit about some of the analogies and metaphor that folks are attempting to use? Sure. I mean, the first thing is everyone thinks like AI from the movies, like Terminator or Hal, right? Relentlessly logical computers that are sort of like have a mission and execute it. But this AI acts a lot more like people, right? It's all like hot emotion. You can get it mad at you. It plays into the role of you. If you act mad, it will pick up on that and try and echo that back to you because it's like that
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